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Quoting "Laycock, Jos (OSPT)" <Jos.Laycock at OFFSOL.GSI.GOV.UK>:

> Fascinating
> 
> A happy hour has been spent coursing about the internet reading all sorts of
> references to this Strauss chap, rest assured that I've reached my own
> conclusions. Can't see what all this hoped to achieve? Platt you assert that Arlo
> is presenting a biased view, but who cares? I'm hardly going to just lap it us as
> gospel from some fellow I barely know off the internet. 
>  
> Anyhow for what its worth, it strikes me that deliberate social engineering of
> this type is a strongly left-wing thing to do, irespective of what your approach
> is trying to achieve, the real divide is between two behaviours:
> 1) "attempts to regulate in favour of defined desirable outcome" 
> and 2) "attempts to de-regulate in favour of freedom" 
> 
> Anyone who sets a clear plan for how they will engineer a society towards a
> defined end product is a basically a Marxist.

No. There's a world of difference between engineering a society towards tyranny
vs. towards individual freedom. Marxists fit the former category. It's the
difference between the Russian revolution and the American revolution.

Platt


  

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